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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (22 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); if same can now be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29396/17]

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I welcome this debate and I applaud Deputy Cassells for bringing forward the Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017. It is a start. It is not earth shattering but it is a very important start. The Bill proposes to establish a town council commission. It will not lead to a return of town councils any time soon. In fact, it is more likely to delay the...

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: They are anything but successful. The former Minister, Phil Hogan's reform of local government has not worked out. It is one of my and the Labour Party's great regrets. We should have been more resilient, obstructive and obstinate in making sure that the reforms did not see the light of day. It has led to wholesale destruction. What passed for local government reform was not reform at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 423. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to have a person (details supplied) admitted to the urological department of the Mater hospital in Dublin. [30139/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a capital sports grant application by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30140/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the review of the new tenant purchase scheme will be finalised; the changes which are proposed as a result of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30141/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report of Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: What triggers an SFPA inspection or invigilation? What proportion of small vessels to big vessels are inspected? It is very easy for supervisory invigilations to catch the small person engaging in minimal offences. According to some of my colleagues here who are quite expert in this area, the larger vessel can escape and do far more damage. Senator Daly is correct in his comments on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I thank Mr. Kelly and his colleagues for their very comprehensive outline of the various issues involved. They are certainly complex, difficult issues and do not lend themselves to a summary evaluation or assessment and require drilling down into various points, because following through on various issues, it seems to be the witnesses' contention that the Department has misconstrued the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: That is our problem. We should not have asked so many. We are the ones who are wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: If the Bill, as proposed, passes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: If no restrictions are placed on boats. Fianna Fáil would introduce a restriction, but forget about the question of restrictions and consider the current Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcast Advertising Standards Regulation (28 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce a comprehensive statutory system of regulation for online unhealthy food and drinks marketing directed at children; the way in which the State is complying with the World Health Organisation protocol on monitoring food and beverage marketing to children via television and the Internet; and if he...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. On 27 October last I contributed to the debate on Deputy O'Callaghan's judicial appointments Bill, which was a significant and welcome improvement on the absurdity of Deputy Ross's proposals when he introduced a Bill in 2014. I will relay some of the things he postulated as representing the way forward. I congratulate my...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: -----and not far behind. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, knows it. We are lucky to have him because at least he understands this. We do not have to spend time spelling it out. He knows this better than anyone else from his wide and expansive practice in his county and across the midlands. That is where this game is at. I think it would be important and judges would welcome it. They have...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: -----is frightening. I always would have great confidence were a committee to be set up to evaluate applications. If picking an electrician, for example, for a simple job, one would hardly expect that the committee would be chaired by a carpenter or a plumber. It would have someone with expertise in electrics. It is that simple. Members of the Judiciary have their own ways of...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: -----by the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, my own party colleague, were wrong. They emasculated the pensions of judges. Let us be big enough to recognise that this is a major issue. We will soon reach a stage where some of those we wish would apply will not do so. The recent changes to which I refer were a mistake, particularly as the savings made were insignificant....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Farm Safety (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps which are being taken by Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the HSA to address the increasing trend in farm fatalities and accidents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27976/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are courses available of a rehabilitative and educational nature to a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of disability allowance on a long-term basis in view of the fact that the illness which they suffer from is incurable as described and whereby an opportunity in terms of rehabilitation might assist; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (29 Jun 2017)

Willie Penrose: 281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); if same can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (4 Jul 2017)

Willie Penrose: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts and the European Commission to ensure that beef is not included in a potential Mercosur deal with South American countries in view of the fact that the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, has banned fresh Brazilian beef, which clearly would likewise fail the appropriate...